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DodoSSH/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Tests
jaap-jan 3f419cb19b Let one card be selected at a time
The hosts screen draws two grids, one above the other, and each is a ListBox
with a selection of its own. Nothing joined them, so a group card and a host card
could be lit at the same moment — two chosen things, under two pairs of buttons
of which only one would act on whichever the eye had settled on. Both grids mark
a selection the same way, so there was nothing on screen to say which of the two
the next press belonged to.

They share one mark now. Selecting a host clears the group and selecting a group
clears the host, and that second one takes the detail pane down with it: a pane
about one machine cannot go on standing beside a marked group, because nothing
on it would be about what is selected.

Losing a selection deliberately clears nothing. A null arrives whenever either
list is rebuilt — every keystroke in the filter box and every background sync —
and treating that as somebody deselecting would take the mark off a group card
because a search emptied the grid beneath it.

The reload needed the same guard for the same reason. It falls back to the first
host when nothing is selected, which is what puts a target under CONNECT on a
fresh unlock; with one mark between the two grids that fallback would have
unselected a group nobody had touched, once a minute. It is skipped while a group
holds the selection, and it moved into a method of its own because the comment
saying why pushed ReloadHostsAsync past sixty lines.

One consequence needed handling rather than accepting. The phone's only route
into the group editor is a button on a heading in the host list, and it worked by
selecting the group first — which under this rule takes the highlight off the
machine somebody was about to connect to, on a screen that draws no group cards
to say where it has gone. EditGroup takes the group as an argument now: the
heading passes its own row, and the desktop's button beside the cards passes
nothing and still means "the card that is selected".

What the tests hold is the half that lives in the controls. Clearing the property
has to reach the list that is drawing the card, and a selection nulled in the
view model while the card stays highlighted is the exact failure this is about —
so the rule is driven on the real screen, in both directions, against the
ListBoxes' own SelectedItem. The desktop's EDIT is pressed through its binding
for the same kind of reason: a command refusing the button's empty parameter
would be a button that never fires, and nothing about the markup would say so.
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